Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jami Attenberg

I didn't go to graduate school, where all the important writers seemed to be getting their start. I didn't pursue getting published in literary magazines. I didn't even send out countless pitch letters and manuscripts to agents.

Rachel Wilson

I have no regrets that gives me a great deal of peace and I know that's going to help me in my grieving. He saved countless other lives, and he made it possible for other men and women to come back to their families.

Kaskade

To do more of a concert thing, it takes so much preparation. You don't just show up and wing it. You're putting countless hours in the studio, not just to write and produce stuff, but to come up with edits and special things for the show.

Siri Hustvedt

Every time the DSM prepares for a new edition, there are countless groups lobbying to get their particular mental illness recognized by the diagnostic manual. Surely, this is a social and cultural phenomenon.

Michelle Malkin

Low point of the address: Maybe it's just me, but isn't there something tacky about having the leader of the free world reading a phone number from the teleprompter? Also, it's been three weeks and they're only now publicizing a number for Katrina families looking for missing relatives? Nowpublic.com and countless other sites like it were up and running by 9am on Aug. 30. Just saying...

Jim Hendry

Nobody is here at the park longer than Larry. And the pitchers recognize that. He spends countless hours trying to make them better mechanically and mentally.

James Snyder

I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.

Dule Hill

I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My family is from the country like West Moreland and also in Manchester. I've been there countless times. As far as cuisine, there's not really much that comes out of Jamaica that's on a plate that I don't like.

Wilson Mizner

I have known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, but never had a thought.

J. Taylor

It goes until about 10 o'clock, and it's a great parade, even if you're just watching it. Then we follow that with a big fireplace display and it's all over by about 10:30, so people can ring in the new year at home.

Michael Shaw

It had to be someone who knew they could never display them or sell them, but was obsessed with owning them.

Bob Johnson

I can get a piece of fruit or a vegetable or produce or whatever and I can find various recipes for that particular item, and it can display that recipe, print it out, take it home, use that recipe, and we're integrating that with the locator system to show where all the ingredients are within the store for that recipe.

Yvonne Martinez

I just think any mother openly displaying marijuana on the counter, with guns and knives on display, is disgraceful.

Ehud Barak

In fact, we have finished displaying our positions. We displayed our readiness to examine ideas and we are waiting,

Paola Antonelli

Each object had to transcend the outcome of the equation of its form and function by displaying meaning -- to an individual, to a community, to the world at large -- and last but not least, ingenious beauty.

Phil Jones

It's just a wonderful display of how well she was liked.

Ralf Rangnick

After a display like that we can not just go back to normal,

Kevin Lynch

When you're displaying content, any technology will use more power to display, versus not displaying content.

Ronda Rousey

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.

Margaret Keane

I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

Henry Selick

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.

George Herbert Mead

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

E. P. Thompson

I was disappointed that we lost. I would have thought that a draw would have been a fair result,

James Jones

We've got to go back to the drawing board. We should of had these boys. We've got to see what we did wrong, and make up for it, and just get better.

Alan Reed

We take people on horse drawn rides through the corrals and through our processing plant to see how milk is bottled.

Capt. Kramerius

We think that it will draw at least 40 to 50 kids a day.

Mike Eaves

We thought we saw something where we could draw them up, get it low and take what was given.

Jill Paton Walsh

I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Jim Pryor

He will go through some examples of different recreation centers.

Melissa Gilbert

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Carl Forti

Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.

Friedrich Muller

His thought is quiet, quiet are his word and deed, when he has obtained freedom by true knowledge, when he has thus become a quiet man.

Lupita Nyong'o

I thrive on structure. I find my freedom in structure.

Thomas Vinje

What Microsoft is talking about is freedom for them to innovate, not others.

John Oates

We've done that over the years, each of us releasing solos. I think that's why we're still together. That freedom doesn't keep us too restricted.

Lyndsey Medders

He's given me that freedom since I was a freshman to make those calls. We have a lot of trust in each other. It's neat we're on the same page like that.

William J. Brennan

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.

Viola Spolin

We have freedom of speech, but you got to watch what you say.

William James

Old-fashioned determinism was what we may call hard determinism. It did not shrink from such words as fatality, bondage of the will, necessitation, and the like. Nowadays, we have a soft determinism which abhors harsh words, and, repudiating fatality, necessity, and even predetermination, says that its real name is freedom; for freedom is only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Leonard Teitelbaum

History indicates that less than 10 percent of the meat recalled over a time period such as this is actually returned,

Robert Montgomery

The message that has been sent is, you're going to be liable for Saturday night specials and sales thereof.

Walter Benjamin

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Virginia Woolf

literature is the record of our discontent.

Vladimir Nabokov

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

William O. Douglas

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

John Cheever

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Northrop Frye

To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.

Sasha Grey

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Roselyn Sanchez

This is my motto: Rejection is God's protection.

Rod Stewart

I want to dance, I want her ass. Why is she ignoring me?

Trenton Lee Stewart

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Loni Anderson

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Ariel Sharon

Once in a while such reports are published, ... I'm not rejecting anyone.

Oprah Winfrey

I don't want anyone who doesn't want me.

Madeline Zima

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Steve Earle

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Anton LaVey

ALL religions of a spiritual nature are inventions of man. He has created an entire system of gods with nothing more than his carnal brain. Just because he has an ego, and cannot accept it, he has to externalize it into some great spiritual device which he calls God.

Rob Zombie

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

Richard Pousette-Dart

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

Richard Posner

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Richard Paul Evans

The concept of spiritual healing was something I was raised with.

Richard P. Feynman

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty

Richard Whately

Even supposing there were some spiritual advantage in celibacy, it ought to be completely voluntary.

Reinhold Messner

In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.

Sue Moores

Partially hydrogenated such-and-such oil,' which is kind of the kicker word for trans fats.

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Paramahansa Yogananda

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Darrell Royal

Amazing. There's just no other word for it. Amazing.

Cynthia Lennon

There was no word from him between 1971 and 1974,

Charles Dickens

A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

Chris Cornell

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Louise Erdrich

It was enough just to sit there without words.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Eric Kristenson

It can be as much of a workout as you want it to be.

Tory Burch

I think you can have it all. You just have to know it's going to work.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Alan Siegel

I think the law should be comprehensible not only to those who work with it but also to those who are governed by it.

Michael Osterholm

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Brian K. Vaughan

There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium.

Charlaine Harris

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

Sara Sheridan

Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre.

Eleanor Catton

I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children.